Serge Girard

Serge Girard is a French ultramarathon runner born in 1953. He fulfilled the challenge of running across the 5 continents without a single day off.

He is not related to French hurdler Patricia Girard-Léno.

Runs achieved so far
  • 1997: trans-United States (Los Angeles to New York City) - 4,597 km in 52 days, 23 hours, 20 min (former master's world record, beat by Marshall Ulrich;[1] world record holder is Frank Giannino, Jr.[2])
  • 1999: trans-Australia (Perth/Sydney) - 3,755 km in 46 days, 23 hours, 12 min (former world record, beat by Achim Heukemes)
  • 2001: trans-South America (Lima/Rio de Janeiro) - 5,235 km in 73 days, 3 hours, 40 min (world record)
  • 2003/2004: trans-Africa (Dakar/Cairo) - 8,295 km in 123 days, 2 hours, 40 min (world record)
  • 2005/2006: trans-Eurasia (Paris/Tokyo-) - 19,097 km in 262 days (probably world only attempt)
  • 2009/2010: one year: 27,011 km in 365 days (world record)[3]
gollark: Why is my documents folder 25GB?
gollark: Apparently my `.config` folder is 1GB.
gollark: ```Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted ondev 4049896 0 4049896 0% /devrun 4093740 1156 4092584 1% /run/dev/mapper/arch-root 62914560 36713744 25937136 59% /tmpfs 4093740 32672 4061068 1% /dev/shmtmpfs 4093740 0 4093740 0% /sys/fs/cgrouptmpfs 4093740 8236 4085504 1% /tmp/dev/sda1 1046512 72504 974008 7% /boot/dev/mapper/arch-home 163371072 142836388 20534684 88% /hometmpfs 818748 32 818716 1% /run/user/1000```
gollark: Well, my server holds other stuff, and it has 1TB.
gollark: I had to clean out my home folder a while ago.

References
  1. Ulrich, Marshall. "Running on Empty: An Ultramarathoner's Story of Love, Loss, and a Record-Breaking Run Across America" (Avery/Penguin, 2011).
  2. http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/3000/fastest-crossing-of-america-(usa)-on-foot-(male)
  3. http://www.telegraaf.nl/reiskrant/7952105/__Fransman_wandelt_27.000_kilometer_door_Europa__.html?sn=binnenland,buitenland



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